salt/doc/_templates/index.html

{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% set title = 'Overview' %}

{% block body %}
    <div class="introduction">
        <h1>What is Salt?</h1>

        <p>Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to
        administer servers in a fast and efficient way.</p>

        <p>Salt allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers.
        This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily
        gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a
        reality.</p>

        <p>Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a
        remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state
        system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be
        in.</p>

        <p>Between the remote execution system, and state management Salt
        addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management.</p>

        <h2>The Salt stack</h2>
        <dl class="feat-link">
            <dt>Remote execution</dt>
            <dd>Remote execution is the core of modern cloud and infrastructure
            solutions, and Salt offers the fastest and easiest remote execution
            system available today</dd>
        </dl>

        <dl class="feat-link">
            <dt>Configuration management</dt>
            <dd>Salt offers the world simplest, yet most powerful, flexible and
            scalable configuration management system</dd>
        </dl>

        <dl class="feat-link">
            <dt>Highly scalable</dt>
            <dd>Easily manage tens or hundreds or even tens of thousands of
            nodes with a multi-tiered management infrastructure.</dd>
        </dl>

        <dl class="feat-link">
            <dt>Highly configurable</dt>
            <dd>Receive responses where, how, and when you want.</dd>
        </dl>
    </div>

    <div class="documentation">
        <h2>Documentation</h2>

        <dl class="doc-link">
            <dt class="doc-tutorials"><a href="{{ pathto("home") }}#docs-tutorials">Tutorials</a></dt>
            <dd>Get started with each Salt component in five minutes or less</dd>
        </dl>

        <dl class="doc-link">
            <dt class="doc-fulldocs"><a href="{{ pathto("home") }}#docs-reference">Documentation</a></dt>
            <dd>Comprehensive and in-depth explanations and reference;
                <br>Offline?
                <a href="{{ github_downloads }}/salt-{{ version }}.pdf" class="doc-pdf">
                    <img src="{{ pathto('_static/page_white_acrobat.png', 1) }}">
                    PDF</a>
                | <a href="{{ github_downloads }}/salt-{{ version }}.epub" class="doc-epub">
                    <img src="{{ pathto('_static/book_open.png', 1) }}">
                    ePUB</a>
            </dd>
        </dl>

        <dl class="doc-link">
            <dt class="doc-offline"><a href="{{ pathto("contents") }}">Contents</a></dt>
            <dd>An exhaustive (and exhausting) overview of all the Salt documentation</dd>
        </dl>

        <dl class="doc-link">
            <dt class="doc-fulldocs"><a href="{{ pathto("py-modindex") }}">Module index</a></dt>
            <dd>Quickly jump to the reference for individual modules, states, and more</dd>
        </dl>

    </div>

{% endblock %}